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THE 'SOFTER WATCHMAN, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 SHOULD BE i ARRESTED ' 0 \ Magistrate MeAdoo j Requests District| Attorney to Draft j V/arrants For Of f i- j cials and Members! of American Ex-j change W$&K York, J^arch 16?Chief City I Magistrate iieAdoo, who conducted | a "John. Dot"' investigation of the j American Cotton Exchange, tonight | requested the district attorney! either'to draft warrants ?'*r .ho ar- j rest of certain officiate and mcr.-i bers of the exchange, or !mme-j d lately to lay before- the grand jury i evidence of bueket shopping. Besides officers of the c^vhange j Magistrate MeAdoo said the fol-; lowing persons had bcr-jrt involved j so far in testimony ?nfcen at thej -John Doe" hearings: Martin Goulke, trading under the ! name of Martin & Co. Israel Goulke, trading under the ! name of Anderson & Co. A. T. Jennings and Leonard" C. j Coeheu, trading under the name of i A. T. Jennings & Co. Edward L. Patton, trading under j the name of Edward L. Palmer & | Co. . ' j Raymond Palmer, trading under j the name Palmer & Co. Randolph Rose, Sr., and Ran dolph Rose, Jr., trading under the name of Rose & Son. A. V,\ Graham, formerly of Ox ford, X: C. president of the Amer ican Cotton Exchange and author of the Cotton Futures Act. and Goo., \V. Pratt, secretary, are included j among the officers involved in the j testimony. , Magistrate MeAdoo j said. The written request for warrants j or a grand jury investigation goes i into a detail explauantion of the law j defining bucket shops, prohibited i under the penal law. The law is ] "clear and explicit," the magis trate sa.id, in establishing legisla-1 tion to prevent "fictitious and make j believe.sales and defines as a buck et shop any betting place or place where any contract prohibited by this article is made or offered to l>e made." Magistrate MeAdoo criticised the exchange for lowering the unit j ujSon which "wagers" wore made from 100 to 10 bales and added that! it f'was a serious misfortune for the iarge number of foolish dupes who indulged in this form of gam bling, and their aggregate losses must have been great." It would have been better, he said, if the unit had-' been higher than 1.00 bales. "Even when the speculating is J carried on within the law, it calls! for large means in order to meet! the losses," the. magistrate deciar-i ed. "Imagine the chances there! are to the so calie?" customer when ! the game is often reduced to a wager with dishonest and irrespon- j sibte persons and when most of [ those speculating live far away j from the exchange, in the cotton l>ek of the southern states. "The evidence shows that the largest part of the transactions on j this exchange were simply wagers I made on the. fluctuations of the) cotton market "obtained by tele-1 graphic communication as to the activities ana actions of other ex- I changes, following which false re presentations were made to those' who had risked their money in; these illegal transactions. "I am of the opinion that the evi-j deuce given wan-ants presentation (directly to the grand jury, or the taking of a complaint against the oflicers and persons in charge of the American Cotton Exchange for! i conducting a bucket shop under the terms of this act." Regarding witnesses who testified , at the "John Doe" hearing, Mag istrale MeAdoo advised that where j they'have frankly and fully and; without reserve given evidence ma lerial for the prosecution and for J the public benefit, "I would advise that immunity be extended to them, j The district attorney, he added, had not asked the witnesses for] waivers of immunity, therefore they ! would not be liable, under tin- law. j RICHLAND CO. OFFICERS MAKE BIG SEIZURE Columbia, March 13.?County Officers stored 35 cases of bottled and bond liquor in a room at the! Rk hland county prison yesterday; u:orning as the result of the seizure ! of the two Ford sedans on the public road near Dentsville; The eases contained 4-0 quarts. Rural Policeman Albert Eleazer and Magistrate Wilson arrested a white man and a rugro who refuse to! jgiye their names and they were lodged in the county jail. HOME BUILD ING STARTED "Washington. . March 20-- There | has been a marked stimulation in .1 home construction as shown !>\ ' contraets awarded during the last three months, reports the depart ment of commerce. blisbed April. 1850. 881._ PRELIMINARY TO THE GREAT I MINE STRIKE ' . , i _ ! Miners and Operators! Hold Conference! Principally to Sen cure Publicity ? No Idea of Averting Strike ? Xow York, March 16.?Operators! of 74 anthracite coal mines went j into secret session here tonight to \ frame their answer to the 19: wage demands submitted by lead-1 ers of organized labor in the coal j fields. Whether they will accept, reject or counter the demands of the miners will not be made known until tomorrow when owners and j workers will hold a joint session. Regardless of the outcome oC; this conference it is generally pre dicted by both sides and by official! observers of the United States! department of labor that the .an- ! thracite mines will suspend opera-! tions after April 1. The object of j tomorrow's session will be to de-1 lermine whether a protracted sus-j pension or strike may be averted I by an offer to compromise the! wage question. Secretary of Labor Davis here \ today banished all probability of government intervention in the; 1?rese r t n ego tiations. ?'The government will maintain | 'a hands-off policy and will give j the owners and miners every op- ( portunity to settle their differences peacefully," he said. Unless aj protracted suspension or lengthy j strikes result, reaching a climax which will result in direct injury j to the consuming public, we shall! not intervene. "What policy the government { shall adopt in such an event will be j decided when the emergency ac-1 tually arises. We need not* cross j the bridge Tintil we come to iL." Washington. March 1C.?IJitu-i minous coal miners who have vot-i ed to cease work April 1, "come what may. will have the support' of the American labor movement in! their struggle." President Clomp-i ers of the American Federation of J Labor said in a statement tonight.! Coal mine owners, "bound by a solemn agreement to confer with! th'e workers upon the terms of a! new wage agreement" after that i date, "have refused to abide by the j terms of their own pledge," he de- j clared, adding that "no group of! employers is any industrial con-; iroversy in this country has ever: placed itself in a more indefensible: position." "The citizenship of America can i draw from this conduct but one i conclusion." Mr. Compers con-: tinned, "and that is that the imne tinned, "and that 1ftthat the mine! owners wish it to he understood j that the pledge of mine owners is valueless. They are willing to j break their own word if by so .do ing they can reduce wages orl weaken the union. "Profits and power with the j mint- owners come first. The l*nit-j ed Mine Workers of America have an honorable record of agreements honorably k- pt. The industry for I'O years has been conducted upon the basis of negotiation and joint agreement. The mine workers have met evey demand made in those agreements. What they ask now is negotiation and agreement.; The thing they want least of all is to be compelled to cease work as a final ? rot est against the dishonor of employers. The cause of the miners is'just and in that just cause they will have the united arid unswerving support of the great labor movement of our coun try." So action was taken today# by the government affectmg the prob able break in the industry, and | officials conversant with the situa tion appeared convinced that noth- ' in? more could be done to adjust : the disagreement in advance of its, final development. .}. !>. A. Morrow, vice president of the National Coal association. I made public tonight copies of a let t?-r he lias addressed to John L. | Lewis. president of the United j Mine Workers, complaining that j the union had "sent broadcast" erroneous versions of testimony given by the coal witnesses seek- J ing railroad rate reductions before! the interstate commerce comrais- ; sion. M. Morrow declared he ha.d nev er stated that average selling j prices of bituminous coal were j >"1 <?.."??' duing I'.'L'l ?a;? of which j miners received $1.07 as labor cost but had fixed the total cos? of] mining bituminous coal during Oc tober ;i? averaging $-.:>'?> per ton against ah average selling price re ceived by the mine operators of $2.43. Greensboro Suffers Big* Fire Loss! Greensboro. ,V. C, March io. Fire believed t<? I>e incendniry de stroyed tic- warehouse and stables of the Carolina Warehouse com pany here, last night. The loss w:-s over four hundred thousand dol lars. i ''Be Just and Fear > THE RAWEST ! BRIBE EVER OFFERED Wall Street Journal <! Expresses Opinion j Big* Business of Sol diers' Bonus __i By Wallace Bassford (Special News Correspondent) j Washington. D. C. March IS.? ; The president has returned to the j city from his fishing, boating and j golfing trip to Florida. Jt great j many Washingtoninns regret he did not find time to commute the j sentence of the half-witted boy, Mc- ; Henry, under the death sentence] here. The heart-broken mother j had walked to Washington from a distance to ask this of the president. | but he had just left for Florida. ! From all accounts Mr. Harding I had a delightful time, freed from the cares of State?Iiis arduous daily grind. He was the guest, on j a palatial houseboat, of a young ? Washingtonian who was famous ; a few years ago for his wild driv- 1 ing?a vertiable road burner. His late father's will created a 'spend-, thrift trust," but the heir has found blow-holes in it. C>nc of his; friends recently lost $60.000 worthj of choice liquors by thieves, but the supplies on the houseboat are said to be intact except where - i shrinkage' was due to "natural rauses." Perhaps a hatch was left i open. Dangerous waters for an orthodox Baptist, down Havana way. The latest gossip about the pres- ? ident records him as being the pos- ; sessor of fifty pairs of trousers, j including golf knickers. Enough to equip a centipede. Is it any wonder the National Association of; Tailors was so loud in his praises'.'! A few more such customers and they could cut a melon. Unfortu nately, conditions in the country generally are so bad that many a fellow would be in a sad predica ment if the pressing-iron should happen to be too hor. Every time the Republicans1 carry an election in Maine they loudly announce that Maine is the I finest political barometer in the; land?that "as Maine goes, so goes; the country." Of course Maine is as reliably Republican as George is Democratic. Everyone experts Maine to go Republican, and when the Democrats carry elections up i there it has a deep significance, j Four cities in tue state have elect ed mayoi-s this month and all four] of them were Democrats. The ! smallest majority (130) was in! Saco. but the Democrats got six i of the seven wards. In Rath the majority was four to one. Repub lican leaders don't talk about it. but if four cities in Georgia were to go Republican the country would: be informed that it indicated a 1 huge Republican landslide. And ! it would. There will be no bonus legisla- j tion. While, enjoying the scenery from the- houseboat in Florida the I president found means to bring] Speaker Gillett to his views; as a j result the Speaker will not aid his! Republican brethren to put the bill j through the House. The Senate; leaders anouncc that they will take! no action on it until after the fall] elections. They plan to let the needy veterans wait until the lead- : ers van see what effect the bonus ; situation will have on the voters: the president would be glad to see J a humber of recalcitrant Republi-I can congressmen defeated. He is sure he could bette r control a small '? Republican majority than the pres-j ent unwicldly and miscellaneous: collection, made up in some mens- ! uro of grotesque political accidents' and misfits from districts usually, represented by seasoned Democratic congressmen of long service and ' proved ability. Though the president shows; more backbone in standing against! the soldiers" bonus than he wasj supposed to possess, he yields j readily to the demands of the; ship-owners who also desire :i j bonus. But they are rich and pow-i erful and can reach his ear. The ! Wall Street Journal daily reflects the desires of the big corporations! and the few dozens of men who are ; al lpowerful in big business. it j says: "There is no way of passing :i soldiers' bonus, and if there were: a way the bonus should not be paid. In any form it constitutes thej rawest bribe ever offered to the voters, while it prostitutes patriotic; service to the level of the meanest panhandler. Bui President Hard ing's program Tor building up a merchant marine will appeal :c< sound to all hut the demagogue, i The motu y used to subsidize ship ping would be in the nature of ;i national defense." The President accurately reflects the mind of Wall Street, h is still true, as when Israel roamed the valley of the .Jor dan, that "the ?>x knowetb his Own < r. and the a^s his master's crib." The Xewberry ease will not down: Townsend of Michigan and! Frelinghuysen of Xcw Jersey are both opposed for tvnft'mi nation on the ground that they voted to es tn.blish the principle that a man , could bribe the electorate and tin-i blushingly admit it and then sit in the Senate, posing as the equal of j men honestly chosen in the man- j lot?Lot all the ends Thou Ainis't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Sumter, S. C, Wednesday, March 22, 1922 From Chorus to Castle May Etheridge was a London chorus girl. She married Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who had no money and was heir to none. His brother, the Duke or Leinster, recently died and he succeeds to the title, being the premier duke, marquess and earl of. '.Ireland. The former chorus girl now presides over a mansion and an estate of 11,000 acres in the county of Kildare. ILL i ENTHUSIASM NOW BEFORE ! FOR COTTON THE H0U& MARKETIN Estimated That Total All Records in Num Cost of Bill Would ber of Bales Signed Be Slightly More! Than Four Billion-' Dollars -Expected to Be Broken This Week in State-Wide Cam Washington. March 16,?There were just two developments today in the soldiers' bonus muddle. One was the filing by Chairman Ford ney, Of the ways and means com mittee of the majority report on the compromise bill which, was esti mated to cos: the government a to tal of .*4,?'lis.7J 0.350. The other was the circulation of a petition by Representative Limberger, of Cali fornia, a former service man, for a conference of House Republi cans for next Tuesday evening to discuss the bonus legislation. Mr. Limberger announced to night that there were sixty signa tures to the petition or ten more than required for a rules for con ference committee. Chairman Fordney dcelared em phatically that it still was his de termination to bring the bill up .Monday under a suspension of the rules, if that could be done, and if not. to call it up Tuesday under a special rub- it" such sale could bo obtained. ? ? ? JOHN BULL SEIZES ISLAND paign New York. March 2ft.?Wrangol Island. amoi ^ the most important lauds in the Arctic region and stra tegically dominating northeastern Siberia has been claimed for Great Britain by a party of three Ameri cans, ;i Canadian und Four Eski mos, through Yilhjalmar Stefans son, tin- Arctic explorer, who or ganized the expedition, it was learned today. BIG LEAGUE BALL GAMES Columbia. March 20.- The great est enthusiasm is reported all over the state in the cotton eo-opera tvie marketing car i pa ig n. and the week beginning today is expected to see all records smashed in num ber of hales signed in one week. Bvery section of South Carol: aa is now reported aroused over the movement and in almost every ?county in the state committees will work every day and in some coun ties every night this week. The great Piedmont section of j the state which was somewhat slacker than the Pee Dee section to he aroused has now fallen strongly into Line and four big ; counties. Greenville. Spartanburg. LAnderson and I^i.urens liave prom ised a total Of IftO.ftftft hales to the pool. Marlboro county total has now gone to 2G.3S1 bales and E. Wal lace Evans, the county chairman, insists that a total of 40.uftn bales ?Vill be signed while S. E. Evans, the county agent has visions of I Od per cent sign up. Thomas C. McLeod of Lee county begins a four days speak ing tour in the Piedmont section tomorrow. He will speak at An derson, Melton, Freevillc, Groer, Sparrahburg. Woodruff. Laurcns and Clinton and great crowds are expected to hear him at all of these places. Dr. I). W. Daniel of Clemson College, onr of the greatest orators in the south begins a seven days" speaking tour on Eiday at Edgc lieid. lie will speak in Abbeville, Greenwood. McCormick. Edge lieid. Aifcen. Damn-erg, Dnrnwell, Orangeburg. Calhoun and Allen dale counties. The whole state is watching the outcome of tomorrow's canvass in Sumter cottntv. I ?et roit. Mandl 2ft.? 1 >e1 roit Americans and Rochester Inter nationals stari en a toiir of South Carolina to visit Anderson. Union. Columbia, Handel. Raleigh, and Cha rleston. ner provided by the law. I;' these Senators wh<> v? ? i?-< 1 for Newberr\ accessories aftei the fact?should escape <b feat in the primaries ihe? rhanee to gel |?y the general elec tion v ill be exceeding slender, foi .ill geod people of all parties v. ill mute to rebuke them for their con tempi for the proprieties and their abasement of the Senat" of the Cuitod States. The seating of Xi w l?erry was the most damaging blow thai has been struck a; the tools of onr system of government with in a generation-: to find worse ?-\ amples one mns1 go hade to the purchase of presidency by Marie liaena in ISfXi ami the- thef: of il front Tilden in 1ST?!. Dylan. N?-w York's Democratic mayor, must ho a pretty good sort mi mayor, after all. The Republi can State Senate has voted to in crease his salary from $15,000 to! $25,000. j LIBERTY BONDS RECOVERED Washington. March 2ft.- Tin- re covery the Liberty Bonds amount ing io Stfiii.OOU. which were stolen from the branch treasury depart ment Saturday. i*? announced by the secrel service with the arrest of C < >. Wamsley. at Charloites v ille. charged with complicity with Charles. A. Clevenger. an employe of the treasury. with the robberv. STRIKE SETTLE MENT URGED Manchester. N. 11.. March 2 ft.? Ilishops. in a hit' ' read in Catho lic pn I pits, urged a speedy settle ment of the ct?tton mill strike and suggesting that mill owners and strikers submit the wane and work in:; hours question i ?? arbitration. Every da> about 2.5??0 in Chicago have their hair bobbed'. Never put off until .tomorrow what you can cut off today. out! Truth's." GEORGIA MOB I HELD OFF BY ! YOUNGSTER - jWho Plays Heroicj Role in Stirring* Ep-j isodes?Boys Saved; From Lynching* j [ Chattanooga. March 10. ? Ac-! j cording to citizens of Durham. Ca.. I 11. W. Williams, young manager ofj ;rhc commissary at the Durham] ! Coal Mines on Lookout Mountain, played a heroic role in the stirring! episodes that followed the killing' of .1. W. Morion, deputy sheriff, by! the Raker hoys at Durham yester- j day. having almost singlehanded. on two different occasions and at' different places, prevented lynch- j ing of the accused. The story re lated l>y witnesses in substance fol- ? ! lows: When the Central of Georgia train rolled up to the little load ing station of the mining company vesterday at neon Ralph .and George Baker, scarcely out of their j teens, stepped from a car near j which Morton, who was tJ7 years 01" age, was waiting to assist his in-! j valid daughter, Mrs. Gordon Phil lips, who had come to the mining. I town to he treated by the com- 1 I pany doctor. One of the Bakers, placed himself in front of the officer j and said: i "Well, you got a warrant for us, j j ha.e you ?" Morton replied. "N'o, hoys. 1 have ! no warrant for you." Then without further words the j two brothers opened tire and the* i aged man pitched forward with his , body riddled with bullents. but fir-] ing one shot as he fell dead. The fifty or more men standing! around the station were stunned by. the suddenness of the tragedy, but! Williams, who was in the commis- ! sary some distance away, immedi ately ran to the scene. Me secured a revolver from a bystander, ami calling two other I young men to his assistance,, j started in pursuit of the fleeing! I gunmen. George Raker was soon j run down and captured, when a I moh of men who had gathered ' {threw a rope around his neek and' were threatening to hang him. Williams boldly told the crowd . thai he intended- to protect him, that Baker was his prisoner and finally persuading the angry citi zens to disperse. Meantime, an-' other posse was trailing Ralph' Raker and found him in the loft i of a farm house several miles from : Durham. He was dragged out. a; [chain thrown around his neck and; I plans made to string him up to a ? tree. Williams, who had joined the j searchesrs, along with a few other j j men protested against the lynch- ; ling, but some of the citizens were j determined to wreak vengeance; One of the leaders then drew a! line on the ground and asked all fa voring hanging Raker to stepj across. declaring that majority; {should rule. Immediately nearly: all of the hundred men present; (Stepped across the dead line, but I j Williams again took a firm stand ? i for law and order and again pre- j i vented a lynching. The prisoner w:rs then taken to Durham and turned over, with his brother, to Sheriff Harmon, ami. both were placed in jail. That tin- killing of deputy Mor ton was deliberately planned was indicated by the fact that the Ba ker hoys arc said to have had cut . the telephone wires before boarding] the train at Klintstone for Dur- i (ham. The affair. < mting upon the: (heels of several other killings of i officers by moonshiners and liquor [runners, has created t?use feeling; j t hrotighout the count v. j -?>.. I MORE IN CITIES THAN I IN COUNTRY ! Bank Assembles Data. Show j ing Fewer on Farms Than in Factories i i - I New York. March 19. - -For the ; I first time in the country's history j more persons are. employed in fac tories than on farms, according to' ? statistics made public today by the National City hank showing due-; ! ; ual ions since 1 K70. J Figures for 102*) showed that j j while those "gainfully occupied in! agriculture were Jess than double! ? the number in 1ST'1, employees in j manufacturing and mechanical in dustries were five times as many1 I as in IS70. Those in trade and i j transportation were six times as nu merous as in 1 S70. Women ga:nfull> oceupied in ! creased from 2.1? 4 7,0 00 in Inmi ro I s.." 1.000 in I 92tL or aboul 221 per cent., while the percentage of [anales grew only about 12 i per j cent from 14.74o.00u in ISSO to ::.:.t'.">!>.'oni. PLANS FOR ! COAL STRIKE I Washington. March 20. ? The I general policy committee of the j I'nited Mine Workers of America: were called today to meet Friday] in Cleveland to formulate the policy to be followed by the bit uminous mint is when work sus- ? pends on April 1. I THE TRUE SOT BONUS BILL , SNARL GROW ING WORSE Bitterness Increases in | Republican Circles j ?Hints Against Gil- j lett Washington. March 10.?Every day that passe* increases the bit terness and seriousness ol' the snarl into which the Republican party is getting Itself over the j bonus bill which the majority of the ways and menus committee, un dor the leadership of Chairman' Fordney, is trying to drive through the house by ?'strong-arm" meth ods. A promising now clement of dis cord has been added by apparently authentic reports from Florida that Speaker c.illett. who has been with President Harding on the brief presidential vacation, will j refuse to recognize Chairman Ford ney or anyone else who proposes t<> offer a motion to take up the bill under suspension of the rules, which would mean rushing it through in one session with forty minutes of debate and without permitting any amendments to he considered. Mr. Fordney and other leaders! in the agitation for this procedure; are planning to call a Republican caucus immediately, in the event the speaker, when seen here on his way to New York, confirms the re ports that he will not recognize any member to move a suspension ofj the rules and remains obdurate in.j that attitude. The present idea is to have the caucus "instruct" the speaker to afford such recognition; and back of this idea lurks a dis position to undertake to unseat Mr. Oillett and install another speaker; if the instruction should not be obeyed. Of course, a party caucus has no right to instruct a speakei of the house?but that is anothei story. There is still another reason fo? the anxiety of the leaders who fa vor the pending bill to jam it through the house Monday. Not only do they fear the lapse of time in engendering opposition to the measure itself and in giving fur ther opportunities for discord, but they have a deadly dread that the sentiment in favor of permitting adequate debate and of allowing amendments to he offered will open I the way to revival of the excess profits tax, which was abolished, with much difficulty when the ex isting revenue law was adopted earlier in the session. A number of Republican mem bers of congress who think the bill ought to carry within it the provision for paying the bonuses which it undertkaes to establish, in order to meet the president's ulti matum, are trying to have, a caucus of their party colleagues called for Monday or Tuesday night. Some of them are in favor of the sales tax: others are in favor of the ex cess profits tax. Tin-re is no ap parent possibility that a sales tax could be adopted even with the bonus propulsion behind it. but the excess profits tax has formidable support, and many who reluctantly voted to abolish it earlier in the session in order to stand with the administration would seize an op portunity to restore it as a means of paying tin- bonus. Most of the Democras would probably vote for the excess profits tax as a revenue raising amendment to the bonus bill. If the scheme to consider the bill only for a few hours under gag rule should prevail, there is a po - j sihility that an upset might ooc r through the adoption of a motic j to recommit it to the commute j with instructions to include * e excess profits tax as a revenue i > er. Rumor has it that Chai a in Fordney and a majority 01 lis colleagues of the ways and n" ? ns committee would refuse to e >n sider the bonus bill furth if it should be recommitted?i . is to say. that they would ignr i. he instruction in disgust and r or. The only way of getting tl ?111 out of the pigeon-hole in tha ase would be to ]....s a motion to dis charge the committee from con sideration of it. AH this is gossip, but no: idle gossip. It is sympto matic. There are mutterings of wrath a~d resentment on every side, and a veritable battle royal may develop at any moment. The days of Ca nor. ism and the 1'ayne A Id rieh bill are being vividly re called. CHICAGO IN DARKNESS Chicago. March 11??A pail of darkest night descended on Cht eago iit noon today. Automobiles turned on their headlights, street signs iti the downtown district were lighted and the telephone ex < hanges and newspaper offices were deluged with thousands of anxious queries. The mystery was solved by the weather bureau which reported that a sudden shifting of the winds had ??piled up*- all of the city's smoke in one monstrous cloud blanket through which not even a single sunbeam could force its way. The phenomenon lasted only a few minutes, the lifting of the cloud having the appearance of a second sunrise. rHROX, E&tablishod .Inno I, 18G6. VOL.LIII. NO. II NO LET UP IN TREATY FIGHT Two Republicans and Tom Watson Attack Four Power Alii j ance ????? Washington, March 17.?Another sustained assault was thrown against the four power Pacific treaty by the senate irreeoneilables ! today after the treaty's friends had argued among themselves for an hour as to whether the pact might, porperly be called an "alliance.." The fight against ratification was carried forward in turn by Sen ators Fi-ance (Republican) of Maryland. Johnson (Republican) of California and "Watson (Democrat) of Georgia in a series of speeches which occupied the senate most of of the afternoon and which drew no reply from the treaty's sup porters. Senator Johnson compar ed the pact with the Anglo-Japa nese alliance in an effort to show that both ??contain a meaning broader than their words." In the course of the debate charges of "propaganda" both for I and against the treaty were mad? [ by the opposing sides, but no one I produced any direct evidence to jsupport the assertions or asked for any investigation of the influences j declared to be at the work to con I trol the action of the senate. [ The discussion over application of the term ??alliance" took place largely between Senator "Willis j (Republican) of Ohio and Senator Sp^ncor (Republican) of Missouri, both supporters of the treaty. A speech recently made by Senator Spencer declaring the pact to be "an atiiance for conference" but not for use of force was assailed by Senator Willis, who insisted that no sort of "alliance" was contem plated and that the speech of the Missouri senator had embarrassed the treaty's friends. Mr. Spencer stood by his definition and his characterization of the foreign re lations committee's "no alilance" reservation as "a ridiculous ab surdity." By Senators France, Johnson and Watson, it was declared that the dictionary definition covering the treaty mattered little and that the real nature of the four power arrangement must be judged by its practical operation. Mr. Johnson asserted that so far as actual word ing went the Anglo-Japanese alli ance covered only unprovoked ag i gression in eastern Asia and India and that if it really was dangerous to the United States, as argued by [supporters of the four power treaty, the reason lay between the lines. Judged by the. same proves-;, he asserted, the four power pact might easily lead to many dang, rs in ac tual practice. j Senator Watson charged that the j "money power" was behind the treaty and reciting that Biihu Root, one of the American delegates, was a great corporation lawyer and at torney for the Anglo-Japanese bank. He declared Mr. Root could he expelled to work for " a better and stronger concert" in the Far Fast. "When secretary of state lie was a party to the rape of Korea by Japan." said Senator Watson. The Georgian said it was signifi cant that Holland had l>een denied admission to the four power treaty, although, he said, "her insular pos ! sessions were larger than the ! French." "France was, brought in because .-.he has the largest standing army I in the world." Senator Watson con tinued. "England and Japan need 'those soldiers. Holland has no military strength to contribute." one or' the first results of the treaty. Senator Watson predicted, would be cancellation of the al ! lied debt to the United States. He I pointed out that a place on the i new debt commission had been giv !en to Secretary Mellon of the ? treasury, who he said was associat ed with Wall Street. He added that "somebody ought to arrest and i send him to the penitentiary." I THEFT OF BONDS I Nearly Two Hundred Thou sand Dollars Taken From Treasury i - Washington, March 10.?Be> tween $170.000 and $?0e.000 in ne gotiable Liberty bonds are missing j from the Liberty bonds branch oi j the treasury, W. H. Moran. ehiei j of the secret service, said tonight. I Secret service operatives have been I sent to Richmond and Charlottes ? ville. Ya.. where two employees of I the branch, wanted in connection with the investigation of the loss, j were reported to be, he added. The lo>-s of the bonds became known Saturday, it was said, bin 'the total amount missing had m>t been acertained tonight. Charles A. Clevenger, also an employee in the branch, was held for question ing, secret service otlicials an nounced, hut no charges had been placed against him. Washington. March 20.- Prohibi tion Officer William Gruben, who was mentioned in connection with illicir whiskey operations in Staun ton, Ya., has resigned.